Peter Doig Quotes
What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
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Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Great men marry great women.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I'm bad at returning phone calls.
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'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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I adore my two older sisters, Erika and Betsy.
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If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.
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I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.
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What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.
